You don't need us to tell you what to do with strawberries. Eat them raw on a picnic and enjoy their juicy flesh. Eat them the raw with your lover, dunking the red fruit in chocolate and pursing your lips suggestively to take a bite. Strawberries encourage sensuality, and some consider them aphrodisiacs. Maybe it's because they appear in the late spring, when the weather changes and the hope for a bountiful year lightens everyone's steps despite the high pollen counts weighing down the air. Maybe it's because they stain the lips an inviting red. Maybe it's just because the taste and heady fragrance overwhelm our passions.

Photos by Melissa Schneider

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